At the start of this class we were all still pretty confused about what we were going to do for our final product, because we still hadn’t even figured out what ideas we were going to be working with. We asked Dan for advice on how we should connect all three of our separate ideas for content into one artefact, and he suggested that we focus more on one idea. We all kind of looked at each other and thought “oh shit”, because that was our next challenge … whose idea are we going to pick? After about 20 awkward minutes of us sitting there each wondering what we were going to do, we started to discuss the possibilities everyones ideas had, and which had more promise. We started to focus more on desensitisation at this point, and the effects media technologies have on audiences.

We came across this: http://www.playgunman.com/. We thought this would be good to talk about in our script.

We thought one character could talk about how this sort of thing is an exact product of how desensitised our society is. This is a game for your phone that uses your camera as a gun, and you can use it to shoot your friends and just random people on the street. In the video HE SHOOTS AN OLD MAN WALKING DOWN THE STREET. This video is actively encouraging aggression towards people who aren’t even playing the game. We will have to look further into media effects, but this sort of thing could possibly even promote violence not just in general, but associating violence with everyday life, because you are actually experiencing it through your camera.